One thing I've noticed is that no one bats an eye when large groups of white men walk about the cities of America carrying Semi-Automatic weapons openly in stores claiming to defend the 2cnd Amendment. But Black people are shot dead whilst un armed, with police claiming they might be carrying a gun.

I wanted to add one other coverage point on this Oregon white militants situation. On the one hand, a major reason why we've always been so interested in these stories is just how outrageous they are and the fact that the federal government is increasingly wary or simply unwilling to enforce the law.

As I said earlier, this really amounts to white privilege performance art. We always want to avoid violence and bloodshed whenever possible. But we are also a republic. We have a rule of law. People aren't allowed to take over government buildings, threaten federal officials with violence or keep demanding free handouts from the government (which is the underlying issue here) on the threat of violence. This is a mix of violent outlawery and domestic insurrection. And I think, if we think about it, we all know that it doesn't get a very tough response because the country just takes it for granted that white people in the interior West just act weird and do stuff like this.

As we first heard from two TPM readers early this afternoon, a White Nationalist Super PAC (yes, that's now a thing) is now blanketing Iowa with Robocalls on behalf of Donald Trump. And for bonus awful, the leader of the organization is the man Charleston Massacre shooter Dylann Roof cited as inspiration for his killings in his manifesto. As the audio puts it, "We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump.” Details and audio here.